A review by saint_eleanor
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

so fucking good!! I have a lot of theories about this book and feel like I will mull it over for a long time. It's the perfect length, it's really unsettling and disturbing and tbh like to me more horrific than most horror novels bc it's all about like existential dread and being and nothingness (horrifying.). I lowkey want to read it again because it's one of those non-linear books that is more of a circle, each section can be explained by other sections in relation to eachother.

I liked how it was a story that Jake wrote about the girl he never had the courage to speak to, but I also played around with the idea that they actually were on Venus lol, or he was. Idk, i felt like the venus stuff was cool to include and not insignificant but maybe there's another piece.

I also liked the movie, but DO NOT watch it w ur partner for the love of god. I'm also curious how they chose to do the screenplay and stuff bc it was pretty different from the book but conveyed the story really well.